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Check out Mrs. Young's words:

"I voted for Mayor Lightfoot after she came to my church because I believed in her as a Black woman."

Lori Lightfoot is a horrible human being. Not only did she attempt to do the same thing as her white predecessor &

 withhold video of white police terrorizing a black person, but she lied about seeing the video and "falsely denied her administration withheld footage of the raid from Ms. Young." So miss me with this bullshit that somehow black life is safer under black politicians...
If statutorily possible, black Chicagoans should immediately launch a recall election to remove Lightfoot from office. She should never again be allowed to occupy public office. Put simply, black life isn't even safe under black leadership....
Just ask the family of Rashard Brooks why black Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is blocking their settlement negotiations regarding the white cop who murdered Brooks in a Wendy's drive through parking lot. I need you to comprehend precisely what Lorraine Hansberry was saying..
when she said "all my skin folk aint my kinfolk." Black people have little 2 show for their black leadership. White supremacy is so sinister that it often puts black faces on white horror. Hence, U often get the same, if not worst outcomes even when black folks are figureheads...
Think Judge Tammy Kemp hugging Botham Jean's white killer cop in open court. Think Judge Latisha Dear Jackson refusing 2 throw the book at white Officer Robert Olsen in his ruthless gunning down of a naked black Air Force veteran Anthony Hill. Think Judge Kimberly Esmond-Adams...
throwing the book at recent black college graduate Aimee Michael for a car accident while sentencing a white man 4 time served for his brutal beat down of a black woman Amazon delivery worker. Think Kamala Harris refusing 2 investigate white officers surrounding the death of...
Mitrice Richardson. I could go on&on. Far 2 many times there are black hands that rush 2 protect white life at the expense of black life. This shit is maddening. I fully expect 2 B treated worse by black elected leaders breaking their neck 2 prove their loyalty 2 white people...
So where do we have to turn? Nowhere. Being black means having nowhere to turn, being surrounded on all sides by either white people who seek to devour you or by black people happily willing to do their bidding. As Dr. John Henrike Clarke once posited, "you have no friends."...
Being black means being friendless. Any black person can be turned against U on the drop of a dime. Every Negro becomes Tekashi 69 when white folks come calling. Comprehending just how bulletproof white supremacy is means trusting no one, especially those "who look like you."...
Thinking otherwise is suicidal. Just ask MLK, who fought for affirmative action only to be put under surveillance by the first black FBI agents who were hired under the government's 1st affirmative action program. Read that back. If you subscribe to the idea that the FBI was...
somehow responsible 4 MLKs death, then U must at least entertain the conjecture that MLKs actions 2 simply help Negroes carte blanche was in fact a suicidal act. Under this logic, it is not 2 far fetched 2 consider the possibility black FBI agents were used 2 hunt King. Fuck....
Shit, even King's photographer & fellow black preachers were FBI informants. King was surrounded by snitches. Real talk. Just google "Bureau Clergymen." This aint nothing new. Think Black Panther William O'Neal who was Chief of security for Fred Hampton & also a FBI informant...
O'Neal's surveillance would lead to Hampton's brutal murder in a police raid. How the hell did the FBI get so close to Hampton? Because white supremacy is so airtight that there will always be a willing Negro in your inner circle down to sell you out...
You can never offer more 2 one black person than white people can. Thus, white folk will always be able 2 pick off 1 of your closest....and all it takes is one to bring your movement down. Just ask Ralph Abernathy's ghost about that cool half a million he got to disclose MLK's...
sexual exploits. Wait, what? Real shit. Abernathy got a boat load of money to publish "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down," where he disclosed some real personal shit that no real friend would ever do. EVA. Nevertheless, it is always the closest who will sell you the shortest....
White folks are like the crack black folks cant do without. Niggas always be trying 2 get a hit. Perhaps Biggie Smalls put it best:

"Your moms'll set that ass up, properly gassed up
Hoodied and masked up, shit, for that fast buck
She be laying in the bushes to light that ass up"
Blacks who betray black people have a hard time around mirrors as reflections can be painful occurrences when you no longer recognize the person standing before the mirror. Once white supremacy uses you up and throws you away, you are left to ponder the wreckage you caused....
Perhaps this why former Black Panther head of security William O'Neal ran out into Eisenhower expressway & committed suicide at 2:30 in the morning years later after orchestrating Fred Hampton's murder. Shit, that nigga even gave the FBI floor plans of Hampton's apartment...
Cue Morgan Freeman's "snitches vs. rats" commentary on that 21Savage track. Contrary 2 popular opinion, rats of this ilk never get cheese. Nevertheless, Lori Lightfoot should read up on O'Neal & then go take a nice stroll during rush hour down the middle of Eisenhower Expressway.

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Dr. Alexander Hamilton...
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SPOILS OF WAR

#2allthosewhothoughtIwascrazy:

"When I see Harris & her husband, I see us. Will more BW begin to see the same potential 4 romantic love w/white men? Harris' next 4 yrs in the WH could help provide an answer. The power of Harris'

Black men, you are officially expendable, at least have the media tell you. And black women, to hell w/black men. White people will reward you handsomely following Harris' lead. Never forget this country was founded on breaking up black families. I predicted this would happen.

Make Michelle Obama white & Barack Obama's campaign doesn't sniff an ounce of support from black women. The reason being was that the picture of an intact black family in power was a beautiful sight for black women & fulfilled their greatest dreams. There is nothing wrong w/this.

There is nothing wrong w/wanting to see black people in love together in power. It's a beautiful sight, but what of Harris? If the Obama's marriage communicated to black people the power of black love in power, what does Kamala Harris' marriage to a white man communicate?

That black men are expendable & that 2 rise in a white world, black men are baggage that U need 2 discard. Think I'm off kilter w/this? Consider the fact that many black women in powerful positions either say little of or attribute little of their success 2 their black fathers.
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Dr. Alexander Hamilton | Alter Ego: AHAM
Dr. Alexander Hamilton...
@DrAlexHamilton
MY RACIST

If U remember from an earlier post I brought up Sen Elizabeth Warrens remark that "Obama did more for Wall Street than Main Street." I concur. U can ignore poor black people all day, but under no circumstance can U ever ignore poor white

Now Biden must be careful not to repeat the same mistakes of Obama. Biden most go big & go big fast. Fuck inflation. Order the treasury to start printing money. You will not beat Trump by impeaching or prosecuting him. You must beat him on the battlefield of ideas & you do so by-

helping the people he ignored. People with good jobs, food on the table & a roof over their head dont have time to do insurrections. If U help these people, you will choke off the fuel to Trumpism. Some black people will criticize me for taking this approach. My simple retort is-

you can't out-violence white people. We don't make guns. We don't make bombs. We don't make shit. You have to make it such that everyone eats. Otherwise you have to deal with the warning Heather McGhee lays out in her new book: white

Obama did not get this. He made it such that only rich white oligarchs got to feast. Everyone else got crumbs. I need you to get precisely what peace requires. There are a good number of white people in this country which would rather burn this country down than to allow any-
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Dr. Alexander Hamilton | Alter Ego: AHAM
Dr. Alexander Hamilton...
@DrAlexHamilton
WHEN WAKANDA FALLS

I need U 2 get just how horrible this is. Incoming black DA in Wakanda, I meant Atlanta, just voluntarily turned over 2 a white Repub AG, the Rashard Brooks case, a black man who was gunned down by a white cop in a Wendy's drive thru.

She also turned over another case involving excessive force of 2 black college students to the white Republican AG as well. Her reasoning is that the previous black DA behaved unethically. Here's the thing. She actually prosecuted the white cop that killed Rashard Brooks years-

ago in an excessive case force 4 which she dropped the charges then. How in the fuck do Wakandans, I meant Atlantans, elect some1 with this history? Here's the bigger picture. Her predecessor was no better. He actually prosecuted black teachers in the ATL Public Schools cheating-

scandal. Wonderful right? If you a dumb mafucka that answered yes, unfollow me now & never utter my name again. For all others, here is a good lesson in politics & why I have no hope of black people ever moving the needle one inch against white supremacy.

Let's say for arguments sake the teachers were cheating. Let's say black Atlanta officials are corrupt. Lets say Atlanta Airport officials are corrupt. If you are Atlanta's DA, do you prosecute them? Before I answer that question, riddle me this, do you think white people would-
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Dr. Alexander Hamilton | Alter Ego: AHAM
Dr. Alexander Hamilton...
@DrAlexHamilton
NIGGA SURVIVAL

This is what white supremacy looks like. A smiling Negro thanking a good white man 4 giving him 2 life sentences 4 low level drug possession b/c U know, the judge "did what he had 2 do" & deep down inside, Mr. Charlie really loved him.

Nevermind the judge was appointed by Obama, the so-called 1st BLACK president, the harsh sentence was caused by DEMOCRAT Biden's crime bill & YET, somehow the harsh sentence was commuted by the so-called racist white president black people hv been instructed 2 hate, Donald Trump.

Read dat back. We so fucked up as a people, we don't even know who is friend & who is foe. This is the essence of just how perilous our situation is on American soil. How the hell do U unite with any black person when most Negroes dont even know who the fuck their enemy truly is?

Attempting solidarity with black people who don't know who their enemy is will guarantee all black people's annihilation. So I stay to myself, surrounded on all sides by forces that can devour me at any moment. Whether it be by a virulent in your face racist, a liberal racist or-

by a soft genteel respectability politics Clyburnian Negro who has no clue that their words & actions are operating up under the influence of or deference 2 white supremacy. Every black person on American soil is operating under the influence of what I call "Racial Gravity."-
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Dr. Alexander Hamilton...
@DrAlexHamilton
R.A.F.

Lemme say something-from here on out, whenever U read an article from a major newspaper or watch anything from any public figure in any position, try 2 look up their bio & background. If U cant find anything on them, U should automatically become deeply suspicious

I actually once outed a well known professor for being a fraud. All this started with his British professor colleague joking in class how he loved America b/c most Americans thought he was so brilliant just b/c he had a British accent. He told the class how back home-

he was nothing, but he was given some advice by another British friend that in America he could thrive because they would find him exotic & different. So he left Britain & came to America climbing all the way to the top of the Ivy League. While overseas, I actually ran n2 a Brit-

that knew him & said, "Oh yes, we regarded him as pretty mediocre for our tastes. Many failed British scholars go to America where they can be stars. We send all our mediocrity there." He said that shit very nonchalantly, but with dead seriousness. He said this wasn't just true--

-in academia but in many other fields as well. He called this "the lure of immigrant exotics." He said that human beings have a natural tendency to be attracted to the exotic. He felt many of Britain's failed scholars had cracked the code of parlaying their accent &
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In the area I know best, climate change, it's been found repeatedly that climate denialists & skeptics have, on average, MORE higher education than those who accept the science. They know MORE about climate science. They have, on average, HIGHER verbal intelligence.

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